Gawker
Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester was spotted having dinner with a "hot male companion" at Lunetta on Broadway, according to Page Six. That's true, as far as it goes, but the report in the Post gossip column left out a few key facts: first, the actress' companion, Chris Rovzar, was a New York reporter working on the magazine cover story on the buzzed-about CW show; the delicate Rovzar, who used to date Patrick Healy of the New York Times, is gay, transparently gay; and the item was phoned in by a publicist for the show, as Rovzar revealed in the article.
To be sure, Page Six's sightings tend to be telegraphic, and context is often dropped. If you're surprised that these items are supplied by press agents, try watching Sweet Smell of Success; the practice is ancient. And it is perfectly standard for celebrity publicists to invite speculation by omission; journalists usually go along with the game, because it makes a better story.
But, with Gossip Girl's flacks needing to shore up the public heterosexuality of Chace Crawford, the show's designated male lust object, they should be careful about their tactics. If they're too cynical in their manipulation of sightings, those well-timed stories about Chace Crawford's dating life might lose their credibility. If they had any to start with.
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that new yorker article made my life, but that cover of them intertwined and visually fucking the camera? it's been done before by the one tree hill rejects.
Did you know?
That Gossip Girl is the most groundbreaking prodcution of the human mind since Deconstruction?
Also, is stupid.
Stop writing about it.
"TUBE MEAT" would be an appropriate tag for this one too
When I was a publicity assistant at a publishing house we used to take unfavorable reviews and flip it around...For instance: "This book was God-awful. Only complete idiots would read this." The magic: "This book was...God, read this."
I'm pretty sure my 17-year-old sister is the only person in America who still believes Chase could so much as catch a whiff of beav and not dry-heave a little, and I'm doing my best to disabuse her of such foolish notions.
Also, am I the only person who thinks he and the Coop would make kind of a cute couple? Kinda pederasty-ish, but cute.
@swizzard: Pederasty-ISH? That's not so much a may-december romance as an cretatious-mezzozoic romance.
@PickleTitsTurner: Reconstruction?
@Pope John Peeps II: cretaceous-mesozoic?
@bess marvin, girl detective: New York, rather than New Yorker.
Come on: you're usually correcting me.
@Nick Denton: Ouchy my spelling is poor today. But my knowledge of geologic periods is always poor. I'm merely reminding people of the huuuge age difference between Coop and the Chaser. And how imagining their sweaty limbs all intertwined and pulsing would be as weird as imagining oh say... Lindsay Lohan and Bruce Willis. Eww.
@Nick Denton: Someone's bucking for another Commie!
@Nick Denton: Actually, I meant the division of labor.
@Nick Denton: game recognizes game. good work n.
xoxo
bmgd
Chace Crawford was seen having sex on 23rd street with a woman
Fuck, just watch Sweet Smell Of Success because it's awesome.
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